Salary data about federal employees is being hidden. Congress is not
pleased<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article203799934.html>,
Kate Irby, McClatchy DC Bureau, 7 Mar 2018. - Open the
Books<https://www.openthebooks.com/>, a government watchdog group, has for the
past 11 years sought the names, titles, agencies, salaries and bonus
information for all federal employees, and has received much of the data it
sought. It then has posted the information publicly. This year, it was denied
salary information on more than 250,000 employees. While the government
traditionally hides some employee information - about 3,500 positions in the
2016 request - the new redactions represent one out of every eight federal
employees. The Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and
the Department of the Treasury had the most redactions, at about 138,000,
75,000 and 19,000, respectively. Other agencies with many missing salaries
include the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Interior and
OPM itself.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
chairman, as well as several subcommittee chairs, sent a
letter<https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-03-05-TG-MM-JJ-RD-to-McGettigan-OPM-re-Salary-Release-Policy-due-3-....pdf>
this week to OPM Acting Director Kathleen McGettigan demanding information on
the withheld data.